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- Been hearing a lot this morning about the fact that LAX was closed, due to the wildfires that are going madly here in the L.A. area. According to Scoble, LAX is now open, but there's going to be a lot of unhappy travellers as they get the backups un-backed. One more reason to schedule your travel early. |
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- Home abortions soar in Iraq as unwanted pregnancies rise In Iraq, a Muslim country, abortion has long been illegal - and socially taboo - except in medical emergencies. But since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's rule turned the established order on its head, Baghdad has witnessed an upsurge in promiscuity - and the emergence of a practice too risky to carry out under the former regime, with its network of spies. Abortion has become readily available. |
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Maingold (Oct 26 2003 16:45 GMT) - Wer auf Rock steht im näheren Umkreis von Frankfurt/Main zu Hause ist, sollte einen Blick auf Maingold werfen. Lokale Bands aus der Region FFM werden dort vorgestellt, es gibt Konzerttipps und Plattenrezensionen und auch ein paar MP3. Außerdem ein gemütliches Forum. |
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- Pentagon wants 'mini-nukes' to fight terrorists Influential advisers at the Pentagon are backing the development of a new generation of low-yield nuclear weapons - so-called mini-nukes - in a controversial report to be published this autumn. The document is believed to have the strong backing of Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, who last week called for a "bolder" approach to national security in a leaked Pentagon memo. A month ago the Senate eased restrictions on nuclear tests at the military's Nevada site, where no new test has taken place since 1992. |
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Barbershop (Oct 26 2003 16:43 GMT) - An ambitious young man sells the family business in order to get into something more exciting, only to find that the loss of the neighbourhood barbershop is much more of a problem than he had ever imagined. Ice Cube Anthony Anderson and Sean Patrick Thomas star. |
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- Mike Benoit recently posted a link to results from his new and improved file system shootout, using better hardware and running more tests. Using two benchmarks that are designed to measure hard drive and file system performance, Bonnie++ and IOZone, he's compared a number journaling filesystems found in the 2.6 kernel [forum]. Included in the lineup are EXT2 (not journaling, but an effective baseline [story]), JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, Reiser4, and EXT3 each compared head to head on both SCSI and IDE drives. In Mike's summary he labels JFS and XFS as 'best bang for your buck' explaining, "While not the fastest file systems, both of them consistently perform close to EXT2, while using minimal CPU. |
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- I loooove a bezel-set marquis! That one is especially nice. |
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- Liz once said, when she first visited and brashly took the tour herself, that everyone has at least one room that they don't pay enough attention to. I have one of those. I told her it wasn't up for a rating, tho. Mine is back there, behind the closed door. |
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- Rainbow nation fears new bloodbath of whites In South Africa, more than 1,500 white farmers have been killed since 1994. Most have died during robberies, but, according to a devastating report commissioned by South African President Thabo Mbeki’s government, they are increasingly being killed by farm workers who want land of their own. |
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- I just found a phenomenal auction at ebay -the seller has goods up for auction worth about $750 for... |
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- Andy calls the Tennessee - Alabama game a nail-biter. 51 to 43 is not a football nail-biter score. 51 to 43 is what happens when you pit two women's basketball squads against each other. 51 to 43 means that your... |
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- Ground controllers have lost contact with a Japanese remote sensing satellite launched last year, the... |
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- "republiKKKans do best what they do on their knees." - www.indymedia. |
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On TV now (Oct 26 2003 16:41 GMT) - Transit is the topic on channel 9's This Week in Kansas City right now. Update: At the end of the show, three KMBC reporters are talking about the American Airlines' overhaul base deal to the tune of $200 million to... |
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- From his ASP.NET Security Pre-Conference talk: Knowing the default accounts under which the ASP.NET worker process is run (ASPNET on IIS 5.0, Network Service on IIS 6. |
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- From his ASP.NET Security Pre-Conference talk: Knowing the default accounts under which the ASP.NET worker process is run (ASPNET on IIS 5.0, Network Service on IIS 6. |
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- I have worked a bit on the Open Watcom tools for Digital Mars C++ and released updated versions. In particular, I have written an alternative DMC frontend that can work with the Open Watcom linker and with DM's optlink. |
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- I am sure people will make much of this game, calling it the rebirth or breakout of the OSU offense. And there was a lot of offense -- 598 yards, 8 per play. And the score could have easily been 63-6, OSU turned the ball over 3 times in the redzone. But really this game means nothing. Indiana is such a bad program. |
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- آنها هنوز به غنی‌سازی اورانيوم ادامه می‌دهند |
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